Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps

Released in September 2017 on Dead Oceans, this was Phoebe Bridgers' debut album, produced by Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska in Los Angeles. It arrived to widespread critical acclaim and went on to be certified gold in both the US and UK — a rare feat for a quiet, largely acoustic debut. It set the template for the confessional, dryly funny songwriting that would define her subsequent work with boygenius and Punisher, and helped kickstart a new wave of interest in sad, literate indie folk.

Phoebe Bridgers is a Los Angeles singer-songwriter who emerged from the city's folk and DIY scenes before signing to Dead Oceans for this debut. She's since become one of indie music's most recognisable voices, through her solo records, the supergroup boygenius with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, and her Better Oblivion Community Center project with Conor Oberst, known throughout for lyrics that are as funny as they are devastating.